US Patent Issued to Tesla on Aug. 4 for "Enhanced vehicle seat ventilation and construction techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,910, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Enhanced vehicle seat ventilation and construction techniques" was invented by Olav Sadoo (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng Hao Yuan (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew Hoolahan (San Francisco) and Therese Hallberg (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat with enhanced ventilation, and construction techniques for the enhanced ventilation, are described herein. An example vehicle seat includes an exterior formed of an air permeable mesh and a molded foam below the exterior. The molded foam has first holes which allow air to pass therethrough. The vehicle seat fu...